MONTBLANC SUMMIT SMARTWATCH

Swiss construction and modern technology merge to deliver the Montblanc Summit Smartwatch ($930). Montblanc made its name by making the highest quality timepieces. This sleek model takes classic vintage design inspired by the Montblanc 1958 and creates a 46mm watch in stainless steel with an AMOLED display. Powered by Android Wear 2.0 and fully compatible with both iPhones and Android smart phones, this luxury smart watch can be personalized to suit your style and brings the world of portable technology to your wrist. Additional features include a Snapdragon 2100 processor, 4 GB memory, Bluetooth, 24-hours of battery life, and an IP68 water-resistance. Basically, it can handle incidental moisture, but no immersion.

Google has just announced it's getting into the wearable environment and is opening its Android Wear ($TBA) platform to developers. Google's Android Wear will focus on making the information most important to you available at a glance via voice command or touch. Google is expecting the SDK to be released later this year to allow for additional customizations, but for now developers can see what their apps notifications will look like in square or round Android based wearable devices.

What do you get when you white out a perfectly good Rolex Daytona? You get something really cool. To create their Bamford Watch Department Rolex Dayton 'Polar Edition' ($CALL) Bamford modified the dial text hands and minute markers to create a powerful contrast to the all white presentation. The all white covering is achieved via their Graphite Particle Coating (GPC) process. This coating is scratch-resistant and should last the life of the watch. And if you love this watch you need to consider the Twisted Alpine 110 Defender to go with it.

The Bell & Ross - BR 123 Sport Heritage ($2325) pays tribute to the the 1960's. You can easily see this in the bezel and the indices and hands covered in a sand-colored vintage looking photo-luminescent coating. The BR123 features a mechanical automatic movement, and standard functions like hours, minutes, seconds, and date. It comes with a 43mm polished steel case, a fixed black bezel, and a screw-in sapphire case-back with anti-reflective treatment. The whole unit is capped off with an ant-reflective ultra-dome sapphire glass. Water-resistance is only about 100 meters, so its probably OK for showering and a quick dip. Not to be used for serious diving.

These are 12 of the most expensive luxury watches on the plant. These watches are the creme de la creme. They feature amazing details like floating movements that can handle over 5,000 G's, dials made from meteorites, movements with over 1000 components, flying triple axis tourbillon's and much more.You may never buy one of these watches, but you can learn a lot about what makes a great watch and apply that information to obtaining something more reasonable.The first and cheapest watch in the list is the The MB&F HM3 Frog and it sells for just shy of $100,000.

MB&F HM3 FROG

The MB&F HM3 Frog ($100,000) is one of MB&F's cheaper offerings. It features a zirconium-case with sapphire domes. The two domes represent the the house and minutes, while the top dial represents the day. Just in case you're wondering zirconium is a stronger relative to titanium and is mostly used in nuclear reactors. The movement has 304 parts and 36 jewels.

BREGUET LA TRADITION FUSEE TOURBILLON

The Breguet La Tradition Fusee Tourbillon ($175,600) features a one-minute tourbillon with a titanium cage, bridge and fusee. It also includes a straight-line level escapement plus a silicon balance spring which runs at 2.5Hz. The case is 41mm and when looking at the face you will see the tourbillon, two mainsprings, and the black dial. The dial is black coated 18k gold with steel hands which sits under a domed sapphire crystal.

URWERK CC1

The Urwerk CC1 ($260,000) was made to tell time in a linear direction. At the bottom of the watch you see two horizontal cylinders that represent the hours and retrograde minutes. Above those indications you have a digital and linear seconds indicator. The case is fairly large coming in at 53mm. It's made from white gold with a titanium caseback and covered in a sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. The CC1 is self-winding and has a 39 hour power reserve.

MAITRES DU TEMPS CHAPTER ONE

The Maitres Du Temps Chapter One ($540,000) is a modern take on their very first movement. The complicated movement features a tourbillon, monopusher chronograpoh, date and GMT. It also includes moon phase and day indicators that are shown on rollers. This watch is not for the faint at heart, the case is 46 x 62 millimeters. There were only 11 pieces made, hence the half a mil plus price tag.

JEAN DUNAND PALACE

The Jean Dunand Palace ($410,000) is a unique expertly crafted watch. If you look at the case you will see two oval-shaped tracks that are reminiscent of the "Milwaukee Mile". In between those tracks is the heart of the watch, the flying tourbillon. The left track, indicating GMT and a 72 hour power reserve indicator on the right. The winding miechanism was made to evoke a vintage motorcycle chain. The movement contains 53 jewels, and 703 parts.

THOMAS PRESCHER FLYING TRIPLE AXIS TOURBILLON

Thomas Prescher is the inventor of the flying triple axis tourbillon that's included in the Thomas Prescher Flying Triple Axis Tourbillon ($500,000). The watch features two axis that track minutes, a third that tracks hours, a case back that includes a hand engraved geometric pattern, three dials on the front that are reduced by the golden rule, and use of high end metals like rose and yellow gold. Each of the watches are custom made to the clients wishes.

A. LANGE & SOHNE TOURBOGRAPH POUR LE MERITE

The A. Lange & Sohne Tourbograph "Pour le Mérite" ($500,000) was created by one of the worlds top watch makers. The limited edition Pour le Merite features the A. Lang & Sohne tourbillon, a fusee and chain transmission, and a split second chronograph that's accurate down to 1/16 of a second.

RICHARD MILLE RM027 RAFAEL NADAL

The Richard Mille RM027 Rafael Nadal ($525,000) is the ferrari of watches. Just like an engine can be dropped into a Ferrari race car the RM027 movement is dropped into its case and held in suspension by cables that have a diameter of just .35mm. The cables are held taut by a pulley system and because the movement is floating it can handle over 5,000 G's. The RM027 only weighs 3.5 grams making it one of the lightest watches on the planet. The case is made from an anthracite polymer injected with carbon nanotubes making it extremely light and rigid.

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK GRANDE COMPLICATION

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grande Complication ($702,000) features the much touted Grande Complication movement which has 52 jewels, a 45 hour power reserve and 648 components. The 44mm case is made from Titanium and covered with a sapphire crystal front and caseback. The bracelet is also made from Titanium and has a titanium AP folding clasp. Additional features include minute repeaters on two gongs, a moonphase made with PVD metal onto sapphire, and a split time chronograph.

PATEK PHILIPPE SKY MOON TOURBILLON

The Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon ($1.3 Million) is the most complicated watch by Patek. It has 12 complications on two dials and 686 movement components. Besides the time it has the retrograde date, perpetual calendar (day, month, leap year, moon phase, angular motion of moon) and a star chart. The back of the watch shows the sidereal time, and the meridian passage of Sirius and the moon. It also features an audible mean time via a minute repeater on two cathedral gongs. Only three to five of these watches will be created each year.

FRANCK MULLER AETERNITAS MEGA 4

The primary goal of Franck Muller was to produce a very complex watch. They've reached that goal in spades with the creation of the Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega 4 ($2.4 million). The Aeternitas Mega 4 has over 1483 components, 36 complications and 99 jewels. More than any other watch on this list. It has a minute repeater that is activated by a push-piece at 10 o'clock. A perpetual calendar gives you the day, date, month and moon phases. It also takes into account the length of each month and doesn't require any manual intervention accept three times in a row every 100 years. Additional features include a thousand year calendar, multiple time zones, and moon phases.

LOUIS MOINET TOURBILLON ROSETTA STONE

The last and most expensive watch on the list is the Louis Moinet Tourbillon Rosetta Stone ($4.6 Million). The dial of the Rosetta Stone features a hand-crafted piece of the Sahara 99555 meteorite that is believed to come from the planet Mercury. Geological tests have estimated the date of the rock to 4.6 billion years old.

If you're looking for a classic timepiece our latest buying guide will show you some of the best Flieger watches for men. Flieger watches are basically pilot watches where the name came from watches provided to German Pilot during WWII. But before we get started with the list. Let’s clearly define, what exactly is a Flieger watch.

What is a Flieger Watch?

Like we stated earlier the first Flieger watches were issued to German pilots during WWII.Because most pilots during WWII would wear gloves Flieger watches had simple movements, but some did include chronographs. And because of the gloves pilots wore watch cases were large which also had the added benefit making them easy to read and they had large crowns so they could be easily adjusted.The first watch on our list is by the classic German watch brand, Archimede.

Designed as the first dress watch for this brand, the Shinola Bedrock 42mm Watch ($700) steps back from complicated movements to deliver minimalistic design at it's finest. Removing unnecessary clutter and delivering a watch that was made for one purpose, to tell accurate time. The Bedrock has a slim construction that sits effortlessly under tailored sleeves or alongside your golf polo. A stainless steel encases the brands signature Argonite movement which is assembled in Detroit and built to exact specifications. An uninterrupted black dial boasts simple index markers and a small seconds dial at 6 o'clock while the black Cordovan leather strap fits wrists of most sizes and shapes.